Peach

[piːtʃ] or [pitʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh.

(noun.) cultivated in temperate regions.

編輯:沃伦--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To accuse of crime; to inform against.

(v. i.) To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

(n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

編輯:塞格雷

解釋/意思:

v.i. to betray one's accomplice: to become informer.—n. Peach′er.

n. a tree with a delicious juicy fruit: the fruit of this tree.—ns. Peach′-bloss′om a canary-yellow colour: pink with a yellowish tinge: a collector's name for a moth the Thyatira batis; Peach′-brand′y a spirit distilled from the fermented juice of the peach.—adj. Peach′-col′oured of the colour of a peach-blossom: pale red.—ns. Peach′ery a hothouse in which peaches are grown; Peach′-stone the hard nut enclosing the seed within the fruit of the peach; Peach′-wa′ter a flavouring extract used in cookery prepared from the peach.—adj. Peach′y.—n. Peach′-yell′ows a disease that attacks peach-trees in the eastern United States.

整理:李奥娜